Day 8-16.

Day 8: Things that make you sad

Animal abuse
Injured children
People being neglected
Attention seekers
Old people struggling
People in pain
Homophobia, bullying
Failure
People forgetting you when you were once so close
School
Death of an animal
Seeing people cry
Eating too much
Not eating at all
Malnourished children
People living in poverty
Abortion
Not standing up for myself
Being a pushover
Being too emotional
Worrying too much
Caring too much
Goodbyes

Day 9: Things that make you happy

Rain
My family and friends
Music
Intellectualism
Literature
Art
Live concerts
Musicals
Disney movies
Cartoons and chick flicks from the 90s
John Hughes
Adele
Smell of new clothes
Stepping on crunchy leaves
Winter
The clunking sounds heels make when they touch the ground
Baking & baked goods
Friday nights
Saturday mornings
Sappy romance flicks
Christmas

Day 10: What you think when you hear the words “be yourself”

   Over the years, I've sort of made myself act differently in front of different people, like a kind of coping/adaptability mechanism, and it's helped me a lot, but when I come down to thinking of just being myself, the thought of who I was to start off with draws a total mind blank. I think being too many different people has sort of made me lose myself.

Day 11: The worst advice you’ve ever heard, or ever been given

   Just forget about it all and focus on your studies and have faith in God.

Day 12: The best advice you’ve ever heard, or ever been given

   There's been a lot of great things that I've hear from the people I care about the most, but the one that I remember so clearly was from Nicole. It was a couple weeks back, after the breakup. It went something like

"Btw you're too good for ____, I have no experience in love, but I think when two people are in love, it's always about learning and inspiring the other to be better. ____ is..... so uninspirational. ____ is a horrible person. You can do way better."

Day 13: Your favorite quote

   There are too many actually, but the one that rolls off the top of my mind right now would be from the movie Easy A.

"Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John Cusack holding a boom box outside my window. I wanna ride off on a lawnmower with Patrick Dempsey. I want Jake from Sixteen Candles waiting outside the church for me. I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist into the air because he knows he got me. Just once I want my life to be like an 80’s movie."

Day 14: Write about something you believe in, anything at all

   Being yourself, and not changing for anyone. Not sacrificing your views just for the sense of belonging and for not wanting to be seen as a loner. I hate that. I hate how people would give up things they believe to hang out with people just so they can pass their days accompanied by meaningless conversations for the sole reason of not wanting to look lonely. Being in a crowd of people you have nothing in common with, now that's the worst feeling.

Day 15: A song that makes you cry and why

    Someone Like You by Adele
   It's gotten me through the toughest times, and there so much soul that comes out of each breath she takes. The way she sings to you, like as though you're sitting right in front of her, and she's telling you she knows exactly how you feel and that you're not alone as you go through this pain. All of her songs from her sophomore album make me cry, but I remember this one clearly and the impact it first had on me, what with it being the first song I heard from when she first released her second album.

Day 16: Someone you trust

   Myself, because only I know everything that goes on in my mind, everything that I've been through, everything that I feel and what makes me weak in the knees and what makes me cry, and only I will be there for myself till the very last second.